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It is easy to become disillusioned in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Thinking about crime is presently filled with pessimism and seems to inevitably end up with prison or the death penalty as a dead-end (no pun intended) solution for all crime problems. The sites below express in varying degrees calls for progressive change and have optimistic tones. Please forward other links you know about.

• General Links
  
• The Human Rights Web Home Page.
  
• Vera Institute of Justice. Prison reentry, alternatives to imprisonment, poverty, homelessness, etc.: an enormous site worth your time and energy.
  
• Contemporary Prison Issues.
  
• Peace, Human Rights and Social Justice.
  
• United States Institute of Peace - Conflict Resolution Sources.
  
• Peacemaking & Crime. On peacemaking in the U.S. and alternatives to the war on crime. This site contributes information about a forthcoming book and a few links.
  
• The Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, the San Francisco headquarters of the Violence Prevention Initiative, funded by The California Wellness Foundation. The Center designs and promotes policies to reduce violence among youth through a public health approach.
  
• National Center on Institutions and Alternatives: Innovation in Justice. A fantastic site: how and why things are wrong and creative, usable ideas about what can be done to change them!
  
• National Crime Prevention Council. Here lies one of the original 1970s organizations devoted to crime prevention, including McGruff the Crime Dog and a choices of topics from bullying to cybercrime.
  
• The Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, one part of the Soros Foundations Network. This nicely done site is also worth a visit.
  
• Criminal Justice Reform in California
  
• CJCJ's list of agencies dealing with criminal justice policy
  
• Amnesty International.
  
• Prison Activist Resource Center. Home of JusticeNet & the Prison Issues Desk. Resources for organizers, educators and activists
  
• See the latest United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice recommendations at this site.
  
• United Citizens Legal Reform
  
• Paul's Justice Page: Stop the Violence
  
  Restorative Justice Links
  
• Centre for Restorative Justice, Australian National University.
Home of the work of John Braithwaite, reintegrative shaming studies, and related matters.
• Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking. Mark Umbreit, one of the central figures in restorative justice, has been busy putting together this useful site, which has information about their training institute and published sources of information about restorative justice and related matters. Don't forget Mark Umbreit's article on restorative justice published in the inaugural issue of the Western Criminology Review.
  
• Restorative jusice.org. Restorative Justice Around the World. Prison Fellowship International has to be one of the best restorative justice sites around.
  
• Some Principles of Restorative Justice. Discussion about Restorative Justice is very much in the air. You can find it on the major listservs and discussion groups, as well as in current books and articles, including the first issue of the Western Criminology Review. Are we ready for a "paradigm shift"?
  
• Restorative justice links from the National Institute of Corrections.
  
• Principles of Restorative Justice as applied to Juvenile Justice: The Leuven Declaration
  
• Gregg Barak's, "Repressive versus Restorative and Social Justice: A Case for Integrative Praxis". Click on the Social Justice link.
  
• The Mennonite Central Committee's list of resources on restorative justice.Search the terms "restorative justice."
  
• Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Information and Resource Center
  
• Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM).
  
• Educational Resources on restorative justice and related matters.
  
• The CERJ (Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice) Home Page is on-line.
  
  Other links
   
• Havens Center
  The Eugene Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin promotes critical social thought. Among other things, see the archive recordings related to social justice movements and critical race theory.
  
• "Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century:Findings and Results From State and Local Program Evaluations" Available in pdf or in ascii text. Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) documents that evaluate approaches in the criminal justice system and. summarizes various BJA task forces.
  
• The Education vs. Incarceration Clearinghouse. Publications and related sites on the trade-off of prisons and schools.
  
• Larry Sherman et al., "Preventing Crime: What works, What Doesn't, What's Promising," a crime prevention report.
  
• CJ the America's, Office of International Criminal Justice.

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